FIRST LOOK: Here's an early sketch of L.A.’s future Armenian American Museum, which will mark thousands of years of history.
“That was meant for, ‘How do we honor and remember the last hundred years?’ And the second project was, ‘How do we build for the next hundred?’” Sahakian said.
“Armenian history goes back thousands of years,” he said. “We have a rich history, traditions, culture that we also want to highlight.”Armenian American Museum Executive Director Shant Sahakian at the construction site in Glendale. to accommodate the museum. Inside, there will also be a demonstration kitchen, where visitors can learn about and sample Armenian cuisine., in which it is believed as many as many as 1.5 million Armenians lost their lives at hands of the Ottoman Empire, will also play a big role.Oral histories, including those of genocide survivors, will be critical to telling the larger story, said Shushan Karapetian, deputy director of USC’s Institute of Armenian Studies.
The Armenian story is still being written. And so we see the building as a living breathing building, that's going to evolve as the Armenian story also evolves.In the interview, Suchiasian, who was adopted, talked about never knowing who his birth parents were, or his real name. USC’s Karapetian, who studies language, said the migration of Armenians to the U.S. and so many other countries before and after the genocide has made for a rich and evolving story of diaspora that deserves to be explored.
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